Charles-bukowski Quote by Charles Bukowski

“It's sad to wander about the graveyard of my tired memory, where all hurts have been forgiven, where every sin has been more than…

— Teffi

“We live in our tales of ourselves. . . and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of…

— Gregory Maguire

“I just sit where I'm put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: that the deity who kills for pleasure will also heal, that in…

— Louise Penny

“It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven,…

— Mark Twain

“Hope springs eternal in the town of dreams...and so does despair and humiliation.”

— Chet Williamson

“The times, the seasons, the signs may have been mythical; but the sufferings were not. I lay in the dark with the breathing of…

— M.T. Anderson

“Oh! if, when we oppress and grind our fellow-creatures, we bestowed but one thought on the dark evidences of human error, which, like dense…

— Charles Dickens

“By degrees, however, they began to hope again. Such are our insubmergable mirages of the soul! There is no distress so complete but that…

— Victor Hugo

“We must be careful what we imagine, fear, or hope for. The echoes of our thought live on in eternity.”

— Robert Fanney

“Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for…

— Carl Sagan

“For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire, Show'd me the high, white star of Truth, There bade…

— Matthew Arnold